The X-Files: I Want to Believe – A Review

Honestly – who gives a shit? Another movie based on a TV series; a dearth of ideas buoyed by cynicism and desperation. Even David Duchovny looks detached from it… bored, listless, delivering his lines like a fax machine. Time was, The X-Files was a monster hit for Fox (the faceless multi-national corp., not Mulder). But that was the 90s. We were young. We thought shell suits were cool and that The Happy Mondays would last forever. Seeing The X-Files now – in light of Lost – it looks old. Those gormless 10.23pm West Virginia-subtitles, Duchovny’s complete and lasting inability to act his way out of a paper bag…that cheap, icy theme tune.